Building a Browser-Based Line Break Remover with Local-First Text Processing

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TextFixHub built a line break remover that runs entirely in the browser.
It normalizes mixed endings such as CRLF, LF, and CR, and strips an optional BOM.
The tool offers three modes: replace breaks with spaces, remove them entirely, or remove them while keeping a space.
A placeholder approach preserves paragraph breaks, and tests cover mixed endings, trailing newlines, and large inputs.
